[Gllug] Cheep backup solution

[Jonathan Dye]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan [mailto:stan at plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: 22 August 2002 10:50
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Cheep backup solution
> 
> 
> Jonathan Dye (jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com) 
> apparently wrote:
> > 
> > I had a go with mondo which sounds like what you are 
> talking about but I
> > have over 650MB of stuff to back up and I don't want to 
> have to swap the
> > disks over.  I'm lazy and if the backup takes too much 
> effort then I won't
> > do it.  I want something where I can stick in the backup 
> medium and press go
> > (or I can even automate the go pressing) and then come back 
> later and take
> > the tape (or whatever) away.  I also don't want to pay too 
> much, maybe I'm
> > asking too much.
> > If it helps I currently have a couple of gigs of stuff I 
> want to back up.
> 
> _DVD_
> 
> I'm using a pioneer 104 drive for just this (now available for
> 200UKP).  DVD-RWs (about 2UKP each) and the occasional DVD-R (under
> 1UKP) for archive.  All well supported under linux.

SCSI or IDE?

> I just leave the
> relevant disc in over night and it will backup selected parts of my
> HD.  I'm not using any backup tool just a few simple scripts.
> 
> Shame that it _ONLY_ backs up 4.something GB and I have a 120GB HD!

A friend did mention DVDs, although he was talking about the older version
of the writable disks (I can't remember all the different standards) as they
were cheep now because production is stopping.
I might take another look though.

JD

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